Prof Hatice Ozer Balli PhD, MA, BSc

After completing Ph.D. in Economics from U of Houston, USA, Hatice joined to Massey in 2008. She is currently teaching Econometrics, Quantitative Analysis, Economic Policy related courses along with Micro economic Theory and Applications. She is also PhD Placement / Job Market Coordinator for Albany Campus.

She is ranked 1st female top researcher in Massey Business School and as 2nd top female economist among all NZ Economic Institutions and universities in rankings for all years by IDEAS (retrieved on Oct 2022). Her research broadly focused on applied time series econometrics and international finance. Having a solid advanced econometrics background combined with an application to financial data in her PhD, she progressed by expanding her experience in applied econometrics. Through collaboration, she was able to assist others lacking the technical skills by applying the latest techniques over a wide range of topics including finance (exchange rates, equities, and assets), macroeconomics (income smoothing and bilateral trade), aviation (airport efficiency, forecasting air travel demand), energy economics (green bonds), banking (financial and social performance of microfinance institutions), property (windfarms, property values, housing market studies), and Islamic finance (sukuk returns). 

She produced 51 publications ( 80% in  A/A*-grade):J of Banking and Finance (A*), Tourism Management (A*),  Energy Economics (A*), Regional Studies (A*), J of Corporate Finance (A*),  Finance Research Letters, Pacific-Basin Finance J, Economic Modelling, Applied Economics, and International Review of Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Accounting and Finance, International Review of Economics and Finance,  J of International Financial Markets, Institutions&Money, Annals of Regional Science, Tourism Economics, Empirical Economics, J of Economics and Business, J of Air Transport Management, and International J  of Strategic Property Management, Tourism Geographies, J of Economics and Finance, Tourism Analysis, and Rev. of Middle East Economics and Finance.

Her work has been tested before international audiences including American Economic Association meetings (AEA/ASSA) (2010, 2011, 2012), Financial Management Association (FMA) (2012) and European Financial Management Association (EFMA) (2012) meetings, just to count a few. She also contributes to research with serving on editorial boards of many journals and supervising many PhD/MSc students.

The winner of the awards entitled “Massey University College of Business- MBS Individual Research Award in 2022 and “The Certificate of Excellence in Research Impact, True Massey Business School Star” which is distributed by Massey Business School in 2017. Massey University Research Fund (MURF) is granted up to 9,095 NZD, 2015, Massey University College of Business- Early Career Research Award, 2013, Highly commended winner in the 2012 Emerald /EFMD MENA Management Research Fund Award; The young researcher best paper/presentation RBNZ-NZESG award at the 20th NZESG (New Zealand Econometric Study Group) Meeting, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, 2010;  Dr. J. Walter Primeaux and Natalie A. Primeaux Award for Excellence in Economic Education and Research, University of Houston (UH), USA, 2006;  UH travel Grant, USA, 2005-2006; Graduate Tuition Fellowship, UH, USA, 2002-2008; Cullen Memorial Graduate Fellowship, UH, USA, 2002-2008; Tuition and Stipend Fellowship, University of BILKENT, Turkey, 1999-2002.  You can find the most updated information about her at  http://haticeozerballi.weebly.com